Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Inline deduplication
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Application No.: US15138435Application Date: 2016-04-26
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Publication No.: US10585611B2Publication Date: 2020-03-10
- Inventor: Mukul Sharma , Kartik Rathnakar , Dnyaneshwar Nagorao Pawar , Venkateswarlu Tella , Kiran Nenmeli Srinivasan , Rajesh Khandelwal , Alok Sharma
- Applicant: NetApp Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Assignee: NetApp Inc.
- Current Assignee: NetApp Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Agency: Cooper Legal Group, LLC
- Main IPC: G06F3/06
- IPC: G06F3/06

Abstract:
One or more techniques and/or computing devices are provided for inline deduplication. For example, a checksum hash table and/or a block number hash table may be maintained within memory (e.g., a storage controller may maintain the hash tables in-core). The checksum hash table may be utilized for inline deduplication to identify potential donor blocks that may comprise the same data as an incoming storage operation. Data within an in-core buffer cache is eligible as potential donor blocks so that inline deduplication may be performed using data from the in-core buffer cache, which may mitigate disk access to underlying storage for which the in-core buffer cache is used for caching. The block number hash table may be used for updating or removing entries from the hash tables, such as for blocks that are no longer eligible as potential donor blocks (e.g., deleted blocks, blocks evicted from the in-core buffer cache, etc.).
Public/Granted literature
- US20170308320A1 INLINE DEDUPLICATION Public/Granted day:2017-10-26
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